Liang Bua cave, purported cut marks on elephant bones and charred remains from other animals led some researchers to propose that the hominids had complex behaviors surprising for their small brain ...

A cold nose, shaggy fur, and the impulse to roll in foul-smelling things? It must be man’s best friend: the dog! Throughout ...

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Kayleigh explains why her playlist title “Hominids” is not wrong: hominids include all great apes, while hominins include humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and their closer evolutionary branches after key ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

Archaeologists have discovered traces of fires built up to 1.8 million years ago in a cave in southern Africa. The burnt remnants of owl pellets reveal that the fires were regularly used by groups of ...

Those who do not laugh at history are doomed to repeat it. These history jokes will provide the lessons and LOLs you need. A study of history shows that humans have always been hilarious. Why, there ...

To make good choices, companies must be able to calculate and manage the attendant risks. Today, myriad sophisticated tools can help them do so. But it was only a few hundred years ago that the risk ...

July 16, 2026 • Route 66 turns 100 this year. It's considered America’s most nostalgic road trip. With wide open road, sunsets that fill the whole sky, dirt-kissed Chevy trucks, and revving ...

Visitors can now tour the house, where German generals relaxed and gabbed upstairs while Jewish refugees working as spies and translators for the British government listened in from the basement July ...

At the National Museum of American History one day last July, an upright piano stood on a stage. Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption about five feet high. The Ring King Jr., ...

In this collection from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, take an in-depth look at extraordinary women in American history who led advancements in science, politics, sports, activism, the arts and more. Scientist ...